A Wisconsin tale of a story and a starving street life
Miss Bertha Lancaster, 11, sits by a window studying her lesson while poverty-dark streets press in. Her brother Bob and a hungry household crave supper as a worried mother battles fatigue and worn clothes. The scene captures a fragile, hopeful moment in a tenement kitchen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha
Lancaster
Shaw
Bob
Mrs. Lancaster
Momma
Mamma
Muppet
Robert Pinkam Lancaster
Barometer
A Christmas Tale of the Lancasters and the Black Sheep
Mrs. Lancaster writes a hopeful Christmas tale while her brother Rob the black sheep reappears in New York. He reads her manuscript, funds its publication, and invites the family to share a warm holiday, transforming poverty into a blended, joyful future with the Barometer editor as a distant mentor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barometer
Robert Pinkam
Pc Ular
Mrs. Lancaster
Ging
Meritable Lancaster
Wi Lancaster
Hittie
Bertha
Bob
New York
Pinkam
Robert
Rob
Mr. Pinkam
Lancasters
Tom
Hills
Woodlands
A Dead Man's Story of Death and Rebirth
A Civil War veteran recounts a harrowing hospital ordeal in Virginia, nearly dying from a shoulder wound and a planned amputation. He later wakes from a morphine stupor to believe he is dead, is buried, then awakes in his coffin during a final church service, miraculously revived by his mother's tearful words.
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Virginia
Neone
Saul
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le Lonis Globe-Democrat
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Mohammed
New York Herald
Ali
Toga
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Rard, Salsted
Ritten
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Egen E. Rexford
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